The Class Struggle 3/3
The World Socialist Movement doesn’t wish “increasing misery” for the working class. It doesn’t look forward to the attacks on the workers’ standard of living in the hope that it may attract more members. What we do is recognise economic facts. Capitalism is an economic system based on three things: wage labour (working for a wage), private ownership…
The Class Struggle 2/3
The Futility of Reform. Social Reform Explained. 14. The basis of the present system is class ownership of the means of producing wealth. The class that rules has always maintained that basis, as no other foundation for their system is possible. 15. Various changes are made, however, in the manner of conducting the system and in the…
The Class Struggle 1/3
Relations between Capitalists and Wage Workers defined. 1. The population today is made up of all kinds of people, showing much variation in their persons and habits. They differ in size and age, health and mind, dress and looks, and in every family circle, we see wide differences in form, mind and conduct. With all this…
Joseph Dietzgen, El Filósofo Obrero
JOSEPH DIETZGEN es de hecho un filósofo descuidado. ¿Cuántas personas saben que él fue el hombre que Marx introdujo en el Congreso de la Primera Internacional de 1872 como “nuestro filósofo”? ¿O que fue Dietzgen, no Plejánov, quien acuñó por primera vez la frase “materialismo dialéctico”? ¿O que durante los primeros treinta años de este siglo los Ensayos…
Who we are 3/3
“Never in history has there been such a glaring contrast between what could be and what actually exists.” The World Socialist Parties of the United States, New Zealand and India, the Socialist Party of Great Britain and the Socialist Party of Canada are companion parties in the World Socialist Movement (WSM) – which sadly remains an aspiration…
Who we are 2/3
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” The World Socialist Movement (WSM) are not the socialist “party” that Marx (or even our Declaration of Principles) envisages, ie the working class as a whole organised politically, for socialism. That will come later. At the moment, the WSM can…